First and foremost lets start with the cap room issue. The salary cap in the NFL is extremely fluid, as a matter of fact the cap took a 25 million dollar swing from the year previous to the last to last year.
In addition to this if the team decides to cut underwhelming linebackers Phillip Wheeler, and Darnelle Ellerbe with a June 1st designation we would create 11.5 million dollars in cap space (about 6 million if they are cut post June 1st). Another cut that is very likely to happen is Randy Starks who is not the same player he once was. Compliment this moves with the subtraction of Odrick (which I am fine with if we get Suh) and it would leave us with about 19 million dollars in cap space more than enough to make the "Impossible" possible,and realistic
The notion that Suh or any other free agent in the market would not want to come to Miami is nothing more than a fabrication of the team's fanbase in my opinion. Who would not want to live where they vacation? (and most likely own tax free real estate?). From a strictly football standpoint this notion is nothing more than a fad as well. The decade long failure to sustain success has create a false sense of doom and gloom amongst the fanbase. However I believe that despite not been able to land Peyton Manning the organization's track record the past two years has been very solid. Two seasons ago Mike Wallace was the main priority in FA, and last year Brandon Albert was the FA we coveted. They are both (despite speculation on Wallace) Miami Dolphins players and very productive ones as well when they have taken the field. This clearly highlights the fact that the perception that the fanbase has is obviously the polar opposite of the one free agents have. In the end of the day money talks. So does an organization with a stable Quarterback situation, a very solid Oline when healthy, a stadium which is been remodeled and a clear business plan which encompasses what we want to achieve in the coming years.
Granted Suh will be worth a lot of money (I refuse to use the term expensive because value is obviously there), He also has some discipline issues but the goal is to win. The organization has taken risks on guys like Walt Aikens, and Anthony Johnson who had red flags in recent years. So I pose this question to you, why on earth would you think that a coach like Joe Philbin and a General Manager who have a year left on their contracts with the desperate need to make the playoffs to survive (according to you the reader) given Ross never said this publicly, oppose to Suh. Suh is a game changer who is worth at least one or two games a year... meaning 9 or 10 wins for us. which in most years mean playoffs. Suh makes sense... and the money is not coming out of our pocket.
